Grain-spout holder



E. c. STARNES AND E. c. WILLIS.

GRAIN SPOUT HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED AUG.H, 1920..

Patented Mar. 21, 1922.

INVEJV T0115 i w x w 3 rt lwir ATTORAE':

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EARL G. STARNES AND EDWARD C. WILLIS, OF ALPHA, MINNESOTA.

To (ZZZ in 710m it may concern:

Be it known that we, EARL C. STARNES and EDWARD C. \VILLis, citizens oi.the United States, residing at Alpha,- in the county of Jackson andState of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Grain- Spout Holder.of which the following is a specification.

Our inve tion relates to grain spout holding devices oi the kind usedfor holding a grain delivering spout in position while it fills a carith' grain, and the object is to provide an improved device of thiskind.

The accompanying drawing is a perspective view of the improved deviceand a grain spout supported by it. i In said drawing 1 designates thedelivery end of a grain spout, 2. said spout having near the end 1 ametallic loop handle 8. to which one end L, of a rope 5 is attached forpurpose of supporting the spout. lhe rope is passed through a frontaperture 6 and a rear aperture 7 in a staff 8, and then passed as a loop5 between the stat'fl and part 5" of the rope so that the latter clampsthe loop against the stat? and thereby holds he rope in any desiredposition.

The front end of the staff is provided with a large hook 9, having asharp point 10 adapted to be engaged into or over any stationaryelement. represented by the cleat 11, in tl e car or its door casing orthe-boards usually partly closing the door opening while the car isbeing tilled.

12 is metal ring loosely embracing the stall and the lower run 5 of therope.

in the use of the device the hook 9 is engaged with a suitable part of.the car and the rope 5" pulled until the spout end is in the desiredposition for delivering grain at a given point; the rope is then securedby the loop which is easily untied in case the position of the spout isto be considerably changed. It the spout is simply to be raised some,the ring 12 is moved closer Specification of Letters Patent. Patented:Mar, 21, 1922, Application filed August 17, 1920.

Serial No. 404,263.

to the spent, and it the spout is to be lowered the ring is pushed awayfrom the spout so that the part 5 of the rope may get longer and be atliberty to swing downward with the spout.

. i rainy weather or other cause makes the rope so slippery that theloop 5 and rope 5 will slip, then the rope portion 5 may be taken anentire turn around the staff before the loop 5 is tucked into its place.

In contradistinction from earlier crude devices in the same line it willbe noted among other advantages, that this device is independent of anyoutside means for holding the operated end of the rope, since the deviceitself holds it: the ring 12 provides means for much of the adjusting otthe spout and the sharp and open form of the hook enables it to bereadily engaged over or into almost any object for supporting it.

lVhat we claim is:

1. In a device of the kind described, a staff having at one end a sharpmetallic hook and in its body two spaced apertures, one of which beingnear the hook; a rope passed through said apertures; a grain deli'veringspout attached to one end of the rope in a position to be drawn by ther0 e toward the aperture nearest to the hoo the other end of the ropebeing readily securable to the stait near the other aperture.

2. The structure specified in claim 1. and

with a ring loosely embracing the staff and the strand of the ropeextending from the spout to the aperture nearest tothe hook.

The structurespecified in claim 1, said securing; oi": the ropeconsisting of forming a eight in therope and inserting the same betweenthe stall and the main body of the rope that extends between the twoapertures. In testimony whereof we aiiix our signa tures.

EARL O. STARNES. EDWARD C. WILLIS.

